plant louse (plant lous)

A small homopterous insect which infests plants; specifically, an aphid; any member of the Aphididæ. The members of the related family Psyllidæ are distinguished as jumping plant -lice. The Coccidæ are more properly named bark - lice. These three families, with the Aleuro did a, are sometimes grouped as Phytophthiria. See cuts under Aphis, Phylloxera, vine - pest, Pemphiginæ, and Pem phigus. plant-marker (plant' mär" kėr), n. A label, plate, or tablet bearing the common and bo 2. A square, oblong, or circular tablet of bronze or silver, the largest dimension of which ex- tends to three or four inches, ornamented in re- lief with some religious, mythological, allegor- ical, or decorative subject. The Pax, from which the plaque originated, is set in an ornamental framework; the Renai ance plaque was intended to be hung up or inserted in a box or a piece of furniture, or, if circular, to be worn as a hat-medallion. Also called plaquette . 3. Any tablet or distinctly flat plate of metal or porcelain, whether plain or ornamented; par- ticularly, an ornamental circular plate intended for a wall-decoration. See cut in next column. = Scott , Rokeby, i. 1. The bucket plashing in the cool, sweet well. Whittier, Monadnock. His horse is booted Vp to the flanke in mire; himselfe all spotted And stain'd with plashing. Heywood, Woman Killed with Kindne (Works, ed. Pear[son, 1874, II. 103). II. trans. 1. To make a splashing noise in.— 2. To sprinkle with coloring matter so as to produce an imitation of granite: as, to plash a wall. plash1 (plash), n. [Early mod. E. pla he , plesh ; plasche , plaische , plasch , D. plasch , plas , a pool, puddle; cf. G. platsch , plätsch = Dan. plask , splash, splashing sound; from the verb. Cf. flash2, in like sense.] 1. A small col lection of standing water; a puddle; a pool. Be-twyx a plasche and a flode, appone a flate lawnde, Ourefolke fongene theire felde, and fawghte theme agaynes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2799. Plasche or flasche, where reyne watyr stondythe (or pyt). Prompt . Parv., p. 403. Out of the wound the red blood flowed fresh, That underneath his feet soone made a purple plesh . Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 36. IMG:content-0352.png:[blocks in formation] plash Tweed's echoes heard the ceasele plash , While many a broken band, Disorder'd, through her currents dash To gain the Scottish land. Scott, Marmion, vi. 34.